WILD FLOWEES OF AUGUST. 



(CONTINUED.) 



CHAP. XVIII. 



PILGRIMAGE TO TY DEW! AND RAMSAY ISLAND, ON THE 

 COAST OF PEMBROKE-- FOG AND PERILOUS PASSAGE 

 ACROSS THE STRAIT ASPECT OF AND PROSPECT FROM 

 "THE ORGAN" LITTORAL PLANTS SEARCHES ON THE 

 SAND-HILLS BOG-PLANTS ST. DAVID'S HEAD STUDIES 

 FOR A NEOPHYTE AMONG THE TOPPLING ROCKS WINDY 

 ADVENTURE AT ABERYSTWITH SUNSET. 



" I dash'd into the surge ! I pluck'd the Flowers 

 That on the sands in tufts are widely spread ; 

 The Yellow Poppy, bright amidst the show'rs 

 Of spray that hover o'er her lonely bed ; 

 The Arenarian sisters, green and red, 

 With glaucous Spurge, and Sedum's brilliant crown, 

 Silvering the gloomy ramparts high o'er head , 

 Sea- Lavender's blue spikes o'erspread with down, 

 And Thrift's pink dainty tufts in rustic gardens grown." 



MS. 



THE botanical adventurer (more especially if under 

 my guidance) must be prepared for all weathers : stand 

 the brunt of brumal or imbibe the breath of Favonian 

 breezes pant on the shivering mural precipice, with 

 ready hand, to seize its rarest, though, perhaps, 

 unnoticed gem leap amidst the intricacies of the 

 quivering splashy bog or dare the solitary sandy 

 wastes, that in wearisome extent, spread along the 

 verge of the ever boiling and pityless ocean. The 



